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Banned EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Activision says Modern Warfare 2 not banned in Russia 20 The official word from Activision is that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has not been “banned” from store shelves in Russia, but whether or not the game has been pulled as reported be... Russia bans Modern Warfare 2, recalls all copies of game 157 As everybody knows by now, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 includes an incredibly controversial level set in a Russian airport that has generated much discussion. The level has proven to be so inf... Microsoft bans up to one million Xbox Live users 122 Microsoft went on a banning spree this past week and up to one million users have been banned from Xbox Live for having modded consoles. Don't feel sorry for those idiots as you should know not t... Kid pirates Xbox 360 games, gets banned, tells BBC 81 The BBC is hilarious when it tries to cover technology news, because it clearly has no idea what it's talking about, especially with videogames. Case in point: A kid got banned from Xbox Live bec... Pirates banned for Halloween on 360 44 Microsoft has come down hard on some pirates this Halloween. No, not the slutty girls in short skirts and low cut pirate blouses or the guys dressed up like Johnny Depp, silly. Gosh, why would yo... Valve loses appeal against Left 4 Dead 2 Aussie ban 62 Valve has been appealing a decision by the Australian rating board to refuse an MA15+ classification for Left 4 Dead 2, effectively banning the zombie sequel in the country. Valve has a heavily c... Playing Borderlands on Xbox 360? Shouldn't be? BANNED! 53 It's a sad fact that every major videogame release will be up on torrent sites before they hit retailers. It's usually "hardcore" gamers doing the torrenting too, while at the same time... Valve 'bummed' about Australian Left 4 Dead 2 ban 44 Yesterday, Australian gamers got some bad news when word came that the sequel to our 2008 game of the year was effectively banned in their country. You think you're upset? Valve's isn't so happy,... Left 4 Dead 2 banned in Australia 56 Yet another videogame falls victim to Australia's backwards and broken rating system. If you live in Australia and decided to be part of the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott, your job has just been made eas... Obama and Angelina Jolie avatars terminated in Second Life 11 For many people with very little going on in their lives, Second Life is a great retreat, a place where they can be anyone they want. Or at least, it was. New rules are being put into place that ... Risen banned in Australia because Australia likes banning 48 Australia's prehistoric and out-of-touch rating system has claimed another videogame's life, with the Australian rating board refusing to classify the upcoming Deep Silver-published RPG Risen. Th... Player banned from Resistance, sues Sony over free speech 50 Brilliant. As if frivolous lawsuits and willful misinterpretation of the idea of free speech wasn't getting bad enough, here comes Erik Estavillo of San Jose, a man who is taking Sony to cou... Once again Germany needs the worlds help 31 If you've been following my intrepid coverage of the situation in Germany (I've appointed myself Destructoid's German correspondent on weekends) then you know that the German government is attemp... German officials ban Counter-Strike in public 55 Looks like Germany's at it again. The fascist anti-videogame state has continued its persecution of videogames by now banning Counter-Strike from public view, demanding that it not be brought out... Australia censoring the Internet, blocking out M-rated games 55 The Australian Government has officially gone drunk with power. Not content to heavily butcher and/or outright ban videogames that don't conform to their horribly outdated MA15+ age rating cap, t... Japan's erotic game sensitivity continues 50 Ever since the RapeLay controversy, the tradition of the "erotic" game has been a touchy subject in Japan, and we don't mean the good kind of touchy. It seems that certain Ero games mig... Germany wants to stop the Austrian internet 26 I'm not sure what Germany is thinking, messing with a country that spawned a man who can take down a Predator, a Terminator and be twin brothers with Danny DeVito, but Germany doesn't make sense ... Germany wants to ban all violent videogames 39 Evidently no one informed Germany's 16 Interior Minister's that E3 was going on this week because I'm sure if they had known they would have waited for a time when their request to the Bundestag ... Hundreds banned from Final Fantasy XI, now coping with reality again 32 Final Fantasy XI might not be up there with World of Warcraft when it comes to MMO powerhouses, but it certainly has a following -- a following now thinned by hundreds thanks to some cheeky cheat... Genocide: New ban wave headed to Xbox Live? 37 Microsoft can be sadistic when it wants. It seems part of the company's MO to let pirates and modders enjoy Xbox Live during quiet periods, lulling them into a false sense of security, and then i... Rumortoid: EA to ban you from games for message board conduct? 28 Here's a curious one for you. There is a fresh new rumor circulating the Innernetz concerning Electronic Arts and a new policy that allows them to ban you from their videogames if they ban you fr... Utterly pathetic: Australia bans Silent Hill: Homecoming 49 Christ on a ferris wheel, there is something deeply wrong with Australia. Those defenders of Aussie innocence, the OFLC, have refused to rate Silent Hill: Homecoming, effectively banning the vide... Utterly pathetic: Thai government bans five videogames 32 Sigh.Following Thailand's ridiculous anti-videogame uproar following the murder of a taxi driver, it seems that the Thai Ministry of Culture has decided to ban five of the ten titles on its plagi... Malaysian Consumer Group blame it all on GTA 23 The Grand Theft Auto series pisses people off, you say? Well, imagine that. The latest in the line of the mortally offended is the head of a Malaysian consumer rights organization, who has called... Banned in Britain: Kane & Lynch ad joins the ranks of banned game promotion 26 The Advertising Standards Authority has once again reared its ugly head to bar yet another videogame ad campaign. Both Burnout and Stranglehold advertising has previously been suppressed in Brita... Shock of the week: Australia bans Dark Sector 57 Every time I think that Europe has it bad when it comes to videogames, along comes Australia to display the might of its indescribable stupidity. Australia's ratings board has no adult rating for... Manhunt 2's big ban bonanza continues: High Court quashes appeal 15 It's certainly been a rollercoaster for Manhunt 2 in the UK. Banned by the BBFC, edited by Rockstar, still banned by the BBFC, appealed for a reclassification, and now STILL banned by the BBFC, i... Stranglehold commercial banned in the UK 20 The Advertising Standards Authority -- the UK-based advertising group that removed posters for Burnout in London last year -- has banned the above commercial for Midway's not-very-good shooting g... BBFC admits that violence and games have no proven connection 34 As Rockstar's appeal to have Manhunt 2 unbanned in the UK gets going, the BBFC has admitted that no evidence of a connection between videogames and real-world violence exists. It has, however, ma... Lebanon doesn't like satire, gets political game removed 9 Frustrated with the political situation in Lebanon, native Z.F found an outlet for his anger by creating a flash-based game called Douma (Puppet) where Lebanese politicians duke it out in one-on-... Soldier of Fortune: Payback no longer banned in Australia, loses 'best part' 14 When Soldier of Fortune: Payback was refused classification by Australia's Office of Film & Literature Classification, people were up in arms. Upon thinking on the subject further, OZ residen... The Microsoft machine continues to slay hackers on Xbox Live 29 A few months ago, Microsoft dropped something of an atomic bomb on Xbox 360 hackers/modders by banning their machines from Xbox Live if they detected unapproved changes. It cut a swathe through t... Bungie is dialing in the Halo 3 ban-hammer 36 Bungie says that they're not playing around anymore when it comes to Halo 3, and is warning the "naughty" to get ready (for something) in a message called Harbinger of Doom.There are th... Australia bans yet another game: Soldier of Fortune: Payback goes unrated 30 Bad news for koala bears with a war fetish -- Soldier of Fortune: Payback has become one in a long line of videogames refused a rating by Australia's Office of Film & Literature Classificatio... Surprise of the week: Jericho banned in Germany 22 In a move which has stunned the entire population of those who have actually been living under a rock for the last ten years, - incidentally a proud people who are sick to death of being reduced ... Chinese MMORPG bans males who play as females 31 Obviously not as sensitive to the needs of transgendered gamers as we in the west, it would seem that Chinese game companies take a dim view of males who want to be females -- in computer games, ... Microsoft threatens to ban early Halo 3 players, then shows mercy 25 To say that Microsoft jealously guards its Halo franchise, much like a dragon does its pile of gold and arcane treasures, could be something of an understatement. Halo 3's launch is obviously imp... No midnight launch for Halo 3 in London. Council fears Master Chief's power 34 Londoners will be able to go to bed early on September 25th, as it seems their beloved Halo 3 will not launch at midnight as one might expect. A midnight launch is something only the most outstan... UK prisons ban new-gen consoles. Um, should they be there in the first place? 53 I've complained in the past about PlayStation 2 consoles being given to young inmates, but today's news is even more ridiculous. It is today being reported that UK prisons have barred all of the ... Halo 3 thief gets banned from Live until the year 9999 80 Hilarity from the offices of Xbox Live, as the users who obtained an illegal copy of Halo 3 have been banned forever. Well, scratch that ... it's only until 12/31/9999. That's right, before the y... Microsoft's ban hammer smacks down 23,000 from Xbox Live 26 About 23,000 Xbox Live users will power up their Xbox 360s only to see that their console is locked out from online gaming -- they will be unable to access the Live service. This "grounding&... It's a long road from here to Manhunt 2: Rockstar's appeal could be a struggle 10 I had reported in an earlier post that Rockstar was going to appeal the BBFC's decision to ban its PS2/PSP/Wii title Manhunt 2 in the United Kingdom. However, as one might imagine, this is not go... The Darkness banned in Singapore, along with everything else 24 To anybody familiar with Singapore law, it should come as no surprise that The Darkness has now been banned from the country's shelves. For 'excessive violence,' the thought police o... London authorities ban poster for Burnout (Updated: ASA responds to Destructoid) 96 First Manhunt 2, then Dark Sector, now a brand new title can call itself a victim of the crusade against videogames and artistic expression. After receiving a MASSIVE thirty seven complaints from... BAN THIS SICK FILTH! 111 Loyal readers, I come to you with a grim and shocking truth - videogames are truly sick, demented and evil products of cruel and twisted perverts who wish to destroy the very basis of humanity as... Gamers For Gaming: The plan revealed 129 It should be no secret to the more observant amongst you that the current debacle surrounding Manhunt 2 has hit a nerve with myself and Jim. It's not that we feel particularly protective of t... BBFC responds to Destructoid editor - part 2 76 Today, I made a phone call to the BBFC to see if I could get them to be more specific about their thinking on the Manhunt 2 ban. I managed to get in touch with Sue Clark, their Press and Media En... Manhunt 2 is banned here in America too 114 The bad news keeps piling up for Rockstar and Manhunt 2. GamePolitics asked analyst Michael Pachter to see what he thinks Rockstar needs to do to save their asses and not have another Hot Coffe... Manhunt 2 banned in the UK (Updated for Irish gamers) 133 Today marks a very miserable day in the supposed evolution of mankind, as the British Board of Film Classification has rejected Rockstar's PS2, PSP and Wii sequel, Manhunt 2, refusing to give...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! Dive in! meetup+play for a chance to win a PC Dtoid Twitter    Got news?   tips@destructoid.com Reviews & Previews Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles review Left 4 Dead 2 review Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex review Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP! review EyePet review more reviews Online Lessons 101 Monster Slaying in Monster Hunter Tri Hooking onto, under and above Just Cause 2 PS3's 256-player MAG Rooms The Main Building Skate 3 more previews - The Dtoid Army is 50643 strong - Showing Cblogs with 3+ faps   show all Call for entries: do the wrong thing New to Dtoid? 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